Hi bb... thanks for the visit and the lovely comment... yes many fruits are just vanishing in this age of globalisation... 

In the present system the blogs posted by the so called 'top bloggers'  are visible for only a short period... never mind...  I will inform you of every post I make in my blog so that you do not miss any... 

glad you liked this post and the pics... keep visiting ... regards.. Dev

Hi radhika... thanks for  the visit and this most informative comment....  Keep visiting... Dev

Hi sceptic... Wow!!! what a comment... I am thrilled to learn that you did your first course at the School of Signals in Mhow in 1960 - a year before I was born. 

My father served in the same Corps of Signals from 1943 to 1980. I am sure we have many common friends.  My youngest brother and many friends are presently serving officers in the same corps.

The School of Signals is now known as the MCTE (Military College of Telecommunication Engineering) As a matter of fact I am also maintaining a weblog dedicated to Mhow titled Mhow Ki Khabrein

Hi kalkal... I am glad that this post took you on a nostalgia trip to your childhood days in the same Mhow where I live.... Thanks for the visit and the comment... regards.. Dev

Hi shail.... thanks for the visit and the comment... is the fruit edible? Yes indeed!!! ask any schoolboy in Madhya Pradesh or Gujarat...  

hi dev, when i think of all the fruits i haven't seen, let alone eaten, i feel very sad. haven't seen this before. when i was young, they used to sell small, eggshaped, cream colored berries(5paisa per cup)at our school gate. haven't seen those at all after that. then there were some grape like round fruits (from a thorny tree )which we called ablukka. those too i can't see nowadays. boohoo.
great photos.
visited 2,3, of your blogs at a stretch, as always.
in the old system, i could see your blog display so could visit when i wanted (though i didn't comment always. nothing to say.) now it is as if you've disappeared. can find your blog only if i happen to log in at the time of your posting.

This plant is also known as Ganga Imli. It was the first plant which we examined in our first Botony practical class. There are plenty of these trees in Andhra and my house in the village is surrounded by these trees. In Telugu the fruits are known as pulichinta and the crows feast on it.

Hullo DKV

Excellent pictures.  It triggered a bout of nostalgia in my mind.  I was in Mhow first in 1960 to attend a course at the Signals School, as it was then known.  I wonder what is its present name?  My fifth and last trip was in 72 and had I not left Army prematurely in 74 I maight have made many more trips.

Where in Mhow do you live?

Sceptic

Really, sir after watching these live photographs,i am recalling that blissful days of my childhood.Then i was a student of class-8 in MHOW and often used to eat it with my friends.some times it was scattered on the ground after falling down from tree,otherwise.................we had to throw stone to it's tree.

This looks like a fruit we children used to eat while in Vijayawada. Its edible isn't it?? The pics are lovely.